As the show’s Laguna Beach-esque introduction says, summermckeen started making YouTube videos at 14. It didn’t take long for her channel to blow up & prompt her to move to Laguna Beach. Similarities to MTV's show end there. Gen-Z is playing by new rules.
Is it nice to know fans are there to support you, or is it ever hard that fans know so much about your life that is usually private?
“Half and half I would say. It's really cool that I have these people that are so involved in my life and they're still supportive, but there's also a part of that that's really hard to have that many people watching you and judging you and your decisions. I'm just like all of my followers. I'm a 20 year old girl who is learning and growing every day.
“Oh my gosh, it's so weird. I don't really know who, exactly, my audience is. Anyone and everyone can watch it so everyone's going to have a different opinion about it. It's a lot mentally and emotionally, but it's also really cool.” Thanks to Snapchat and Instagram Stories, we’re all kind of hosting our own reality shows. What advice do you have for people who put themselves out there like that?
“I think the amount of time that you spend on social media is really important because the longer we're looking at our phones and other people's perfect lives — well, they're not perfect, they just look perfect — the more we focus on that, the easier it is to compare our lives and to get a little bit too wrapped up in that. I think it's really important to remind yourself that anyone you see on social media is a real person.
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